Obituaries

HAMPTON - Samuel C. Anderson Jr., age 74, died on March 13, 1995, in his residence. He was born in Hampton, Va., and was a Peninsula resident for 74 years.

He was a retired warehouse supervisor, and retired from transportation school at Fort Eustis, Va., in 1979 after 30 years of service. He was an honorary member of Our World Civic Club for more than 40 years. He attended George P. Phenix High School.

He was preceded in death by his wife, father, mother and grandparents. He is survived by one daughter, Patsy Smith Roberson; one brother, Arnold Anderson; and two grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held 1 p.m. Saturday at Zion Baptist Church, Hampton, Va., by Rev. Browlee Hailstock Jr. and Rev. William Webster. Body will be placed in church by 11:45 a.m. Burial in Hampton Veterans Memorial Gardens. Viewing will be Friday from 12 to 7 p.m. in Smith Bros. Funeral Home. Assemble at 232 Old Buckroe Road at 12 noon Saturday.

Arrangements by Smith Bros. Funeral Home.

THOMAS M. ARMISTEAD

GLOUCESTER - Thomas Maywood Armistead, 69, died Tuesday, March 14, 1995. He was a native of Mathews County and a retired commercial truck driver.

He is survived by his wife, Rachel Foster Armistead; one daughter, Arlene Ramsey of Gloucester; one sister, Thelma Hall of Foster; two brothers, Milton Miller of Hayes, and Raymond Miller of Mobjack; four granddaughters and 1 great-granddaughter.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home Chapel, Mathews. Burial will follow in the Friendship Cemetery, Susan. The family will receive friends Thursday evening from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society, P.O. Box 385, Gloucester, Va. 23061.

NEWPORT NEWS - Patricia Ann Davis, 40, died Monday, March 13, 1995, at home. She was born April 29, 1954. She was raised in Newport News, Va.

She graduated from Warwick High School in 1972, after attending Huntington High School for four years. She worked in the Newport News school system for a number of years and was employed at Magruder Elementary School at the time of her death.

She is survived by her mother, Curtis Mae Davis of Newport News; grandmother, Georgia Crump of Newport News; three brothers, Roman Davis of Dinwiddie, Va., Alton Davis of Newport News and Larry Davis of Indianapolis, Ind.; her companion, Yve Plaisimond of Newport News; and a host of friends, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and cousins.

A funeral service will be held 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18, 1995, at Cooke Bros. Funeral Chapel with Elder Maurice Nicholson presiding. Viewing will be from 12 to 8 p.m. on Friday at the funeral home. The family will receive visitors and friends at the home of her mother, 664 D Aqua Vista Drive, and will assemble there on Saturday by 1:45 p.m.

ALBA, Texas - Stephen Don Gaskins, 49, entered eternal rest March, 1, 1995, at his home in Alba, Texas. He was born in Elizabeth City, N.C., to Stephen Humphry Gaskins and the late Mary Brickell Gaskins, and was a member of the Olivet Christian Church, Newport News, Va.

He graduated from Ferguson High School, was former owner and operator of the Westwood Barber Shop, and retired from his business in Alba, Texas. He was also a member of the Chesapeake Bay CB Club.

Family requests expressions of sympathy by way of donations to a charity of your choice.

WALTER GREEN

SUFFOLK - Walter Green, 84, a native of Nansemond County, died on March 14, 1995. Arrangements by Crocker Funeral Home.

CLARA M.B. HOLT

PRINCETON, N.C. - Mrs. Clara Bay Brame Holt, 89, of 3117 Massey Holt Road, died Wednesday at Wayne Memorial Hospital. A native of Guilford County, she was the daughter of the late James Albert Brame and Alice Louise Jarrett Brame, and was the widow of Lion Bank Holt.